The muscle skeletal ultrasound scan constitutes a fundamental help in the precision of the diagnosis of the sport pathology that concerns the segment ankle and foot.
It is not clear whether an SUV obtained by skeletal SPECT/CT scans and analysed using the CGZAS method has any clinical and diagnostic value for the evaluation of bone metastasis in patients with prostate cancer.
In a small study of 16 patients comparing FDG-PET/CT with the skeletal survey, CT scans and MRI scans, it was shown that FDG-PET/CT led to management changes in 9 patients but that MRI revealed diffuse bone involvement in 5 patients not evident on PET/CT.
Bone metastases were diagnosed by isotopic bone scan, skeletal X-rays and CT or MRI if required.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: * based on available imaging, either bone scan, skeletal survey, CT or MRI.
Pretreatment evaluation, performed within 1 month before randomisation, included physical examination, laboratory studies, ECG, echocardiography with LVEF, brain, chest and abdomen computed tomography, bone scan, skeletal radiographs (if required).
Restaging was done after 6 weeks (interim evaluation) and 4 weeks after the completion of the last chemotherapy course with total-body CT scan, skeletal X-ray, MRI and bone scan in case of bone lesions and PET scan when feasible (8 patients).
BM is a more generalized term when describing the amount of mineral, BMC the amount of mineral measured within the scanned skeletal region, and BMD the amount of mineral measured within the scanned skeletal region but partially adjusted for the bone size.
Pterosaurian skeletal elements were scanned on both clinical and micro-computed tomography (CT) scanners.
After exclusion of those containing artifacts, movement, or skeletal irregularities, 6775 scans remained.
